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IdeaConnection uses multidisciplinary teams of highly qualified, hand-picked experts to solve your technical challenges. The result is an unparalleled level of confidentiality, lower burden on your technical staff, and highest success rate in the industry. Better yet, you only pay for success. IEOM Society 18 www.iieom.org IEOM Society promotes and encourages critical thinking in the field of Industrial Engineering (IE) and Operations Management (OM), provides means to communicate and network among people enthused with similar interests through conferences, seminars, workshops, membership, student and professional chapters across the globe, and illustrative research publications to disseminate the addresses challenges and opportunities for readiness of engineering graduates from various parts of the world. IEOM Society focuses on how to reduce the readiness gap around the world. IEOM Industry Solutions showcases industrial case studies and their impacts using IE/OM tools and techniques. Lehigh University, ISE Department 16 https://ise.lehigh.edu Recognized among the nation’s premier research universities, Lehigh offers a rigorous academic community for nearly 7,000 students. Lehigh’s SESQUICENTENNIAL celebrations are shining light on the people, places, breakthroughs, and traditions of the 150 years that made Lehigh a prime institution. The ISE Department pursues excellence and national prominence in OR, analytics, IT, and related fields through innovative teaching, distinguished research, and professional leadership. Building on its unique strength and reputation, ISE strives for leadership in educational innovation, multidisciplinary cutting edge research, and industrial partnership. Our ultimate mission is to produce leaders who have learned to think critically and analytically, have the skills to comprehend and create new knowledge, and are willing to serve and inspire others. www.lindo.com LINDO Systems offers three products hooked to industrial strength solvers for linear, integer, stochastic, NLP, and global optimization. LINGO includes a powerful modeling language and convenient data options to make building models faster and easier. What’sBest! allows you to build large optimization models in Excel. Models are easy to build and understand for anyone comfortable with Excel. LINDO API allows earned knowledge and experience. IEOM Global Engineering Education LINDO Systems, Inc. 39

you to plug the power of the LINDO solvers right into customized applications that you have written. Find out about the latest solver enhancements and pick up a full capacity evaluation license to try or a free educational research license. Software Tutorial: Optimization Modeling Made Easy, Mark Wiley, VP Marketing, LINDO, mwiley@lindo.com, and Gautier Laude, Software Development Manager, LINDO, glaude@lindo.com Monday, 4:30–5:15pm, Room 302 (MD79) Come and learn how easy it is to: quickly build linear, nonlinear, quadratic, conic, and integer optimization models; incorporate uncertainty into optimization models; access data from Excel and databases; and seamlessly embed a solver into your own application. Come see a demonstration of the power and flexibility of the new releases of LINDO API – a callable solver engine; LINGO – an integrated modeling language and solvers; and What’sBest! – a large-scale solver for Excel. families are fundamental applied math and computational tools adopted by more than 5000 universities and colleges. MathWorks products help prepare students for careers in industry, where the tools are widely used for data analysis, mathematical modeling, and algorithm development in collaborative research and new product development. Software Tutorial: MATLAB: An Environment for Operations Research and Data Analytics, Seth DeLand, Data Analytics Product Manager, MathWorks, seth.deland@mathworks.com Tuesday, 8:45–9:30am, Room 302 (TA79) MATLAB is a platform for analysis, visualization, simulation, and optimization. You can access and analyze real-world data and develop customized algorithms that scale to your largest problems. Join us to see how MATLAB can help you explore data, develop algorithms, and integrate analytics into enterprise applications. You’ll also learn about new features including mixed-integer linear programming, machine learning, and working with big data. www.maximalsoftware.com Maximal Software will be introducing the new release 5.0 of the MPL Modeling System and the OptiMax Component Library during the Annual Meeting. This new release represents a major milestone for MPL, and offers Maximal Software, Inc. 54 MathWorks 30 www.mathworks.com The MATLAB and Simulink product

numerous new features and enhancements. We will also be introducing both the MPL Academic Program and MPL Free Development Program, which provide access to free full-size development versions of the MPL software for academic faculty, students, and even commercial users and consultants. To sign up for your free copy of MPL, please visit us at our Exhibit Booth anytime during the conference, or attend our Software Demonstration session. Software Tutorial: Introducing New Release 5.0 of the MPL Modeling System and the OptiMax Component Library, Bjarni Kristjansson, President, Maximal Software, Inc., Bjarni@maximalsoftware.com Wednesday, 8–8:45am, Room 302 (WA79) Maximal Software is introducing a new major release 5.0 of the MPL Modeling System, which represents a major milestone for MPL. We will be demonstrating the many new features and enhancements of MPL, including new directory structure, redesigned documentation, new solver updates, Reverse Hessian for nonlinear models, and enhanced Stochastic support. Major updates for the MPL OptiMax Library and the MPL Callable Library, include new callbacks, new exception handlers, and enhanced multithreaded support. https://powerbi.microsoft.com At Microsoft, our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. We are striving to empower a culture of data by visualizing any data, any place, in any way. Our Power BI solution allows everyone in an organization to become data-driven decision makers. Power BI simplifies complex analytics and provides proactive alerting on all kinds and sizes of data from structured and unstructured to real-time streaming data. Software Tutorial: Power BI: Bring Your Data to Life, Jen Underwood, Microsoft Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft Power BI, jenunder@microsoft.com Sunday 8:45–9:30am, Room 302 (SA79) In this tutorial session, you will explore Power BI with Microsoft engineering product team members. Feel free to bring a sample of your own data to create your own personalized dashboards. You will learn: • Data preparation: Discover, transform, and combine data from various sources • Data models: Create relationships, categorize your data and author business calculations • Interactive visual reports: Author professional reports to slice/dice data to discover insights Microsoft Power BI

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